On 01 Aug 15:59, James Bensley wrote:
On 1 August 2011 14:22, Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk wrote:
I don't believe that Powerpoint *is* an effective way of presenting very much at all.
Really? In its most simple form, Power Point can show pictures. You would expect me to believe that pictures aren't an effective way of representing something. You've never seen a graph or chart that was clear, technical diagram, wiring diagram etc etc that help you understand something? Pull the other one.
Erm, I've seen plenty of those. Not one of them would I be displaying on a projected power point display though, they have too much detail for that to have been a useful way to display them.
Simplifying to "a picture's worth a thousand words" doesn't mean that that picture is useful, without context it's useless, and a large majority of power-point using speakers have a habit of just reading the slides, and not really adding anything to it. If I'd wanted that, I'd have gone and read it on the interwebnets, TYVM.
Now, if you're honestly stating that you have seen one of the above in a presentation that was worthwhile going to, and that you couldn't have got the knowledge quicker, clearer and more efficiently elsewhere, then I'm actually shocked and awed that you've found someone that can give a decent presentation and knows what their audience is about.